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Table 2 Best threshold values found by the grid search method

From: Combining string and phonetic similarity matching to identify misspelt names of drugs in medical records written in Portuguese

 

Parameter

Value

Training Set

Number of true positives

417

 

Number of false positives

31

 

Number of false negatives

25

 

Precision

0.931

 

Recall

0.943

 

F1-score

0.937

Validation Set

Number of true positives

477

 

Number of false positives

39

 

Number of false negatives

19

 

Precision

0.924

 

Recall

0.961

 

F1-score

0.942

Thresholds

Phonetic similarity

0.844

 

String similarity

0.831